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Ansley still recruiting Gaulden, but now for UK

Justin Rowland
Special to CatsIllustrated.com

Derrick Ansley initially recruited Nashville (Tenn.) Independence safety Rashaan Gaulden when Ansley was an assistant coach at Tennessee.

Now that Ansley is at Kentucky he would like to see Gaulden wearing blue.

"I already had a relationship with coach Ansley back at UT," Gaulden told Cats Illustrated. "He was the one that extended the UT offer to me at first. Me and him already had a relationship.

"When I heard that he went to Kentucky we already had ties and we talked for a little bit more. We talked a bit and he offered me at Kentucky."

Gaulden has a lot of respect for Ansley and he wants to see what Kentucky is all about. To that end he will make his first trip to Lexington next weekend.

"He told me to come to the junior day next Saturday so I'm probably gonna make it there," he said.

About a dozen schools have offered Gaulden by his own estimation and that list includes Mississippi State, Nebraska, South Carolina, Tennessee and Vanderbilt.

He will know much more about UK after next weekend but said he already has a good amount of interest in the school.

Still, one other SEC school has the early edge over the field.

"So far Vanderbilt is probably just because they're the closest one to me right now," he said. "I have a good relationship with their coaching staff."

Gaulden said the biggest factors in his decision will be a school's defensive scheme and how he fits into it as well as how he gets along with the players on campus.

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